Segoviana-Mallorca
La Albuera will be the stage in which two teams will face each other in low hours, but with symptoms of improvement. The Gimnástica Segoviana managed to break the last league match a losing streak of five consecutive defeats. Despite the bad league qualifying moment, the gymnastic team wants to be happy in the Cup. In addition, the Segovian team will be led by Szymanowski, who has returned after recovering from an injury, and is a lopsided player. It will be the ideal complement for Nanclares and Adeva.
For its part, Luis García’s Mallorca arrives in Segovia wanting to claim his claim. The last day against Getafe was a draw, but the team managed to improve the bad image given in Vallecas. The vermilion coach will do rotations. Greif will be the starting goalkeeper, Fer Niño will be the offensive reference and the midfielders will also be new: Febas and Battaglia. South Korean Kang In Lee will be in charge of leading to the Majorcan team.
Pulido-Real Sociedad Bakery
La Real begins a new path in the Cup and, that competition that made him touch the sky last April with the title achieved against Athletic, ending a 34-year drought without bringing a trophy to their windows. The first stop will be the Gran Canaria Stadium in Las Palmas, but not to play against the Segunda team, but to be measured at the modest Pulido San Mateo Bakery, a group promoted to the Second RFEF last summer and that this visit sees the most important game in its history. “The players will know the Pulido Bakery the same as those of Madrid,” Imanol said yesterday.
The crash has completely revolutionized all the residents of the small town of Vega de San Mateo, with just over 7,000 inhabitants. An island club founded only 28 years ago. Since then, a bakery has given the team its name. It will live a festive day in its premiere in the Cup. The club has made free buses available to its fans. Illusion is not going to win the Real.
Solares-Espanyol
A public school music teacher –the Solares coach, Diego Santos–, before a symphony orchestra accustomed to pompous amphitheaters: Espanyol. Crafts and industry in La Estación, the Cantabrian countryside. The one of dreams, or the fifth that parakeets seek from today for their record. And the greatest historical milestone of a Solares that remembers Mario Canales, the 16-year-old youth squad who died in February.
Espanyol will half accompany the decorated atmosphere of its hosts, as Raúl de Tomás, Diego López, Embarba or Cabrera are left at home, although it will feature Calero, Mérida, Melendo, Melamed or Wu Lei, and whose main incentive –with permission from Oier– aims to be the premiere in the goal of the young Joan García, recent debutant in the U-21. In front, a leading and undefeated Solares at home in Preferential, with strongholds such as Ángel Oslé Gelo, Jorge Iglesias Pepo, Ismael Agüero or Pablo Raba, brother of Villarreal player Dani Raba. All set for the music to flow.
Cordoba-Seville
Córdoba is excited about a cup derby in which he aspires to stand up to Sevilla. It will be full or almost full at El Arcángel, First class environment because the green-and-white team promises war after winning the RFEF Cup and moving towards promotion. 31 points in 12 games and records such as 33 goals in favor are outstanding Cordovan arguments under the handle of Germán Crespo from Granada, who warns Lopetegui: “Your life can be complicated.”
The Gipuzkoan coach agrees: “It will be a dangerous duel.” Julen is still unable to count on Navas, En Nesyri, Suso or Lamela and will have to rotate after the sterile effort of the Bernabéu, with Villarreal on the league horizon. Yesterday four homegrown players from Seville traveled and, of the healthy ones, only Fernando stayed at home. Córdoba will not save anything, but suffers the casualties of De las Cuevas, Bernal, Viedma and Iglesias, in addition to the Betis exporter Carlos Marín, who has had contact with a positive COVID.
Alicante-Betis
With the same seriousness as LaLiga or the Europa League. This is how Real Betis takes the Copa del Rey. Pellegrini cares little about having a Preferential Regional rival in front of him. The coach does not want distractions or scares against CFI Alicante. His summons, in which he only gave Canales and Guido rest, was a declaration of intent. Betis arrived with everything and their eleven will look very good, with Fekir, Joaquín and Borja Iglesias at the helm.
Pellegrini’s idea is to take Alcoy and avoid the bell of an Alicante that moves between illusion and anger. The celestial entity is enjoying the presence of a large, but Nobody hides the discomfort that exists with the Federation and with the local institutions for taking the party away from Antonio Solana, its natural habitat. The poor state of the grass cut short the dream of Alicante, which will have to adapt to El Collao and move its people 60 kilometers. Even so, in the locker room they believe in the machado before a serious and frazzled Betis.